I made a mistake when I started shooting from the top of the Arc de Triomphe. I worked my way around the top shooting down the many and varied roads that ran off from the Arc itself except... how on earth was I to know which one was which? I spent a whopping 2 nights and only one full day and a couple of fragments of a day in Paris, so it's not like I know the place well. However with enough intel analysis, which I have a knack for if I say so myself, you can figure stuff out. Like, follow your eye to that prominent blue, multi-stepped building seemingly at the end of this avenue. (It isn't, it just looks it.) That must be significant, non?

It is. It's the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris, one of the principal courthouses in Paris, opened a mere year (2018) before we were there. Most importantly it was designed by an Italian architect (Renzo Piano) who also did the Centre Pompidou. (Paris in unison: "An italien??? Designing FRAAAHNCH buildings? 'Ow can zees be?") The building stands out, being 38 storeys (160m) high.

That being the case, we are looking straight down the 1.5km long, 36 metre wide Avenue de Wagram, which runs from the 8th arrondissement roughly North-East to the Place de Wagram in the 17th arrondissement, which is also where the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris will be found.

The avenue was named after the 1809 Battle of Wargram during the Napoleonic Wars, where Napoleon defeated the Austrians near a town of that name to the north west of Vienna. In Austrian it's pronounced "Vagram". I don't dare speculate about the French pronunciation.

Oh, and note the white car at the bottom right, possibly an old Rolls Royce; it gives a vibe of the Paris that once was, circa 1960's, non?